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On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Neil Winchurst wrote:
Any comments anyone...?
Viruses/Trojans haven't trashed computers for a very long time... A working PC is much more valuable to a remote scammer than a broken one.
So I'm very suspicious about this - possibly just sheer coincidence that the drive crashed - possibly with a bit more load on it as a trojan scanned it for email addresses, etc. ? (guessing, but that's what I'd do if writing some malware to send spam email)
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